Implement substring search and weighted sampling
Company: Google
Role: Machine Learning Engineer
Category: Coding & Algorithms
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Technical Screen
Overview: This question evaluates algorithm design and analysis skills across string processing (efficient substring search) and randomized/data-structure techniques (weighted random sampling with update considerations), testing time/space complexity reasoning and probabilistic thinking for large-scale inputs.
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